oh yeah well we first started I first started making music we recorded in the
closet with socks from a mic man rub Tom's it was it was broke before little
yadi would clock in just shy of 10 million Instagram followers over 2
million subscribers on YouTube and 5 million on Twitter at the time of this
recording before lil yachty would catch flack early on in his career admitting
that he's not particularly familiar with biggie or Tupac was just like what's his
name Drake is better than Tupac before Lily daddy would star in a sprite
commercial before lil yachty will be nominated for a Grammy and collaborate
with me goes young thug cardi B the baby Diplo Stephon done yg Drake and more
though things weren't always easy for a young Myles he was often being teased
bullied and harassed by friends and his red haircut wasn't exactly helping now
while attending pebblebrooke high school miles he worked in a McDonald's and in
his free time he would connect with local rappers and producers now there
was also an arrest a year before he made it where he was cob with a whole bunch
of fake credit cards your manager at McDonald's what rap group what's he in I
don't know but I know exactly what you're talking about I don't know oh I
don't remember but I know what you talking about
I don't remember after attending college for two months and hating it because he
didn't fit in and feeling like the education system is stuck ten years in
the past it's a waste of time bunch of people running around bumping into each
other got guy up front says two plus two people in the back state for well young
mild she dropped out much to the dismay of his parents now we always do that he
would be rich and famous but for his future well he needed some kind of
career so he decided to start pouring all his energy into making music his own
kind of music now lil yachty he's always been a man standing out from the pack
dyeing his hair red at the age of 15 although for this video we dug up a
whole bunch of clips of him before he blew up in a big way what's going on
guys explorer michael crichton back at it again with
before their famous video this time an updated episode of little yachty
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subscribe and hit that Bell boom lil yachty was born miles parks McCollum on
August 23rd 1997 in the Westside Atlanta suburb of Mapleton which actually looks
like a pretty picturesque place though he has an older brother and a younger
sister Nina now his father Shannon was a photographer whose career included
portraits and documentary work of outcasts dead prez too short and others
now his dad he actually named him after Miles Davis his mother Vinita has
actually written a book titled raising a rapper and in there she details him
telling her five years before he made it I'm gonna be famous and I'm gonna be
rich just watch growing up Myles his father he would share with him all sorts
of different music everything from Coldplay to Kid Cudi meliloti he started
taking interest in artists who broke away from the norm and would pave their
own path some examples include Lil B because of his I don't give up attitude
that mesmerised young Myles also andré 3000's artistry and Soulja Boy's come up
storing miles attended Pebblebrook high school and he picked himself up a
part-time job working at McDonald's now when he wasn't working or at school he
was networking with other artists and aspiring rappers now being someone who
always wanted to stand out from the pack well he dyed his hair red and in his
rolling stone interview well lil yachty stated my older brother
was gangbanging selling drugs and I think he was kind of embarrassed to me
kids would tease and name-call him but Myles he was in his own lane cuz we all
in our own way Oh got some completely different game
now when he graduated from high school his mom at plants we're going to go to
college but he had a different plan in mind now in her book she explains the
whole time he was at school he saying he didn't want to be there he
kept saying that he was supposed to be Richard famous he wasn't supposed to be
in school hi I'm Bill Collins here at the Bill Collins show we're here with
Bryan with him so ask you a couple questions today so
if a fork was made of gold what is do be considered silverware yes is it gold
plated or fully gold following graduation he made the move to New York
crashing on friends couches and now going by the name of lil yachty a name
inspired by his love for the nautical clothing line also his crew they were
known as the Yacht Club I was Johnny before Nautica I was the
idea I even kind of knew it nautical okay so why were you yachty then let's
start there um I'm gonna group call the Yacht Club and they were all like a lot
older than and I was kind of the baby so I just called myself Louie
while in New York he made a list of all the coolest influencers including Ian
Connor who took notice of yachty supreme coat and the two they exchanged contact
info no New York it could be an expensive city even when you're
couchsurfing so soon miles well he ran out of money in terms of money we have
no money and what September came around well he
decided to make his mom happy and he attended Alabama State University but
while there he soon discovered that pursuing a practical career and a way of
life it just wasn't for him I went to college and it was horrible and then I
knew music was depressed by saying where'd you go to college our mistake
and it wasn't for you it was trash why so they were like 10 years behind and
it'll persona your character they smell like he was a huge probably single dad
as the weirdo when he was you know just different
he just had like a different artistic approach no he didn't fit in with
anybody and he was getting teased by all of his schoolmates
now it got to the point where he simply stopped leaving his room no was then he
started seriously writing his music which included tracks hellos and
Minnesota I actually think we were the first ones to break this story when we
did his original before they're famous but there is a photo of miles who got
arrested Palm Springs where he shopped with
fraudulent credit cards his bond was set at eleven thousand dollars the arrests
went down in 2015 and I found an article in the South Florida Sentinel that reads
two men accused of having dozens of fake credit cards at a mall at Palm Beach
Gardens no an employee had a hat store known as lids well they told mall
security that they suspected that these two men were using fraudulent credit
cards they then called security when the security approached miles
well he handed them one of these fake credit cards his friend's name is
Clarence Logan they found him at Nordstrom when security went up to him
this resulted in a brief chase all of a sudden they handcuffed him and they all
went down to Palm Beach County Jail now the boys face some serious charges were
talking fraud forgery and counterfeiting charges whatever was going on with miles
it wasn't looking good and from there he dropped out of school and moved back to
Atlanta and we hooked up with producer Burberry Perry and later on case supreme
now together the three they would get to work in little yachties bedroom studio
and he got his first taste of success when Drake's ovo sound radio well they
aired his hit Minnesota now from there he got hooked up with Coach K and
quality control music and it began working out of the same Atlanta studio
as me Gauss his big break came with his track one night for which he filmed a
pretty incredible music video stylized like a parody and he got some help from
his high school pass and when the video was done he posted it online and then he
messaged it to all his New York contacts it would quickly got a hundred retweets
then it got 500 retweets then a thousand then 10,000 then 20,000 then a hundred
thousand all of a sudden hit worldstar it blew up on Facebook he got millions
of retweets millions of likes millions of views and then Chief Keef he posted
it and it went viral now today the video is sitting on a whopping 125 million
views now with some buzz he returned to New York City and his old friend Ian
Connor well he introduced Little Bo to ASAP
Rocky now from there he was invited to appear in Easy
season three runway show a 2016 which was being held at Madison Square Garden
soon to follow was his debut mixtape blow a boat and his huge hit broccoli
working alongside DRAM which peaked at number five on the Billboard 100 now
this would also earn him a Grammy nomination then we also landed a spot on
the 2016 double XL freshman class list alum take 21 savage little Aussie bird
and Kodak black I just got out of high school ain't go to high school I went to
juvenile I went the full high schools I feel like one reason why we all got
picked cuz we all in our own completely different from there it's been nothing
but success for a little yachty and he's recently dropped a new album so we
decided to take another crack at has come up starring let us know what you
think about this update in the comments down below as for the rest of the story
well I think we're gonna wrap this one up here because this is before they're
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